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IDBTOOL

A tool for extracting information from IDA databases. idbtool knows how to handle databases from all IDA versions since v2.0, both i64 and idb files. You can also use idbtool to recover information from unclosed databases.

idbtool works without change with IDA v7.0.

Much faster than loading a file in IDA

With idbtool you can search thousands of .idb files in seconds.

More precisely: on my laptop it takes:

Loading a approximately 5 Gbyte idb file in IDA, takes about 45 minutes. While idb3.h takes basically no time at all, no more than a few milliseconds.

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Two versions of this tool exist:

One written in python

One written in C++

Both repositories contain a library which can be used for reading .idb or .i64 files.

Usage

Usage:

idbtool [options] [database file(s)]

query

Queries need to be specified last on the commandline.

example:

idbtool [database file(s)]  --query  "Root Node;V"

Will list the source binary for all the databases specified on the commandline.

A query is a string with the following format:

example queries:

List the highest node and following record in the database in two different ways, the first: starting at the first record below ffc00000, and listing the next. The second: starting at the first record after ffc00000, and listing the previous:

Note that this should be the nodeid in the $ MAX NODE record.

List the last two records:

List the first two records, the $ MAX LINK and $ MAX NODE records:

A full database dump

Several methods exist for printing all records in the database. This may be useful if you want to investigate more of IDA''s internals. But can also be useful in recovering data from corrupted databases.

naked files

When IDA or your computer crashed while working on a disassembly, and you did not yet save the database, you are left with a couple of files with extensions like .id0, .id1, .nam, etc.

These files are the unpacked database, i call them naked files.

Using the --filetype and --i64 or --i32 options you can inspect these naked files individually. or use the --recover option to view them as a complete database together. idbtool will figure out automatically which files would belong together.

idbtool can figure out the bitsize of the database from an .id0 file, but not(yet) from the others.

LIBRARY

The file idblib.py contains a library.

TODO

Author

Willem Hengeveld itsme@xs4all.nl